Contract Management Analyst, Senior at FINRA in Rockville, Maryland

Job Description:

The Associate Principal Analyst in the Credentialing, Registration, Education and Disclosure (CRED) Contract Management team manages the relationship between the CRED department and third-party providers, test delivery vendors and other clients on contracts and other legal documents. The Associate Principal Analyst is responsible for facilitating contract discussions with FINRA stakeholders. This role focuses on leading discussions and driving tasks at all phases of the contract’s life cycle with stakeholders at all levels, to manage client and vendor contracts, while ensuring that policy issues, matters concerning ongoing service delivery, testing operations, and contractual obligations are promptly addressed and resolved. The Associate Principal Analyst works closely with vendors, clients, regulators, and internal FINRA stakeholders, to establish and maintain uniform contracts across CRED business units and establish Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that ensure high performance standards for vendors.

Essential Job Functions:

• Serves as the primary liaison between legal, procurement, senior management, and other key stakeholders in the contract preparation process for CRED vendors and clients.


• Creates Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for vendors and clients and ensures all stakeholders fulfil their contractual obligations.


• Reviews contracts across CRED and ensures consistency in the standards being set for vendors.


• Develops and presents enhancements to CRED contracts based on best practices by assessing contracts that are driving a high-performance level by vendors.


• Assists the Associate Director in the administration and monitoring of all CRED vendor and client contracts, and other legal artifacts, for products and services related to departmental objectives.


• Assists the Associate Director in developing an exit strategy in the event a contract is terminated prematurely or expires naturally.


• Participates in proposal development activities including preparation of required proposal responses and assists in the creation of contract documents.

Education/Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree and six (6) years of relevant or transferrable experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.


• Experience working with business and industry leaders in crafting appropriate solutions to contract related challenges preferred.


• Experience working with attorneys in a paralegal capacity desired.


• Excellent communication (both oral and written) and interpersonal skills particularly in effectively managing relationships with a diverse group of clients/constituents with varying (often conflicting) interests.


• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite of applications.

Working Conditions:

• Standard office working conditions.


• Extended hours outside of normal business hours as needed.


• Some travel required (less than 15 %).

For work that is performed in CA, CO, New York, NY and WA, the chart below outlines the proposed salary range for the corresponding location. In addition to location, actual compensation is based on various factors, including but not limited to, the candidate’s skill set, level of experience, education, and internal peer compensation comparisons.

California: Minimum Salary $84,500, Maximum Salary $165,100

Colorado: Minimum Salary $76,800, Maximum Salary $137,500

New York, NY: Minimum Salary $92,200, Maximum Salary $165,100

Washington: Minimum Salary $76,800, Maximum Salary $158,200

#Li-Hybrid

To be considered for this position, please submit an application.

The information provided above has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work of the position. It is not a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required.

Please note: If the “Apply Now” button on a job board posting does not take you directly to the FINRA Careers site, enter www.finra.org/careers into your browser to reach our site directly.

FINRA strives to make our career site accessible to all users. If you need a disability-related accommodation for completing the application process, please contact FINRA’s accommodation help line at 240.386.4865. Please note that this number is exclusively for inquiries regarding application accommodations.

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. FINRA provides comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance.  Additional insurance includes basic life, accidental death and dismemberment, supplemental life, spouse/domestic partner and dependent life, and spouse/domestic partner and dependent accidental death and dismemberment, short- and long-term disability, long-term care, business travel accident, disability and legal.  FINRA offers immediate participation and vesting in a 401(k) plan with company match and eligibility for participation in an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution, tuition reimbursement and many other benefits. 

Time Off and Paid Leave*

FINRA encourages its employees to focus on their health and wellness in many ways, including through a generous time-off program of 15 days of paid time off, 5 personal days and 9 sick days (all pro-rated in the first year). Additionally, we are proud to support our communities by providing two volunteer service days (based on full-time schedule). Other paid leave includes military leave, jury duty leave, bereavement leave, voting and election official leave for federal, state or local primary and general elections, care of a family member leave (available after 90 days of employment); and childbirth and parental leave (available after 90 days of employment). Full-time employees receive nine paid holidays.

*Based on full-time schedule

Important Information

FINRA’s Code of Conduct imposes restrictions on employees’ investments and requires financial disclosures that are uniquely related to our role as a securities regulator. FINRA employees are required to disclose to FINRA all brokerage accounts that they maintain, and those in which they control trading or have a financial interest (including any trust account of which they are a trustee or beneficiary and all accounts of a spouse, domestic partner or minor child who lives with the employee) and to authorize their broker-dealers to provide FINRA with duplicate statements for all of those accounts. All of those accounts are subject to the Code’s investment and securities account restrictions, and new employees must comply with those investment restrictions—including disposing of any security issued by a company on FINRA’s Prohibited Company List or obtaining a written waiver from their Executive Vice President—by the date they begin employment with FINRA. Employees may only maintain securities accounts that must be disclosed to FINRA at one or more securities firms that provide an electronic feed (e-feed) of data to FINRA, and must move securities accounts from other securities firms to a firm that provides an e-feed within three months of beginning employment.

You can read more about these restrictions here.

As standard practice, employees must also execute FINRA’s Employee Confidentiality and Invention Assignment Agreement without qualification or modification and comply with the company’s policy on nepotism.

Search Firm Representatives

Please be advised that FINRA is not seeking assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this employment opportunity. Regardless of past practice, a valid written agreement and task order must be in place before any resumes are submitted to FINRA. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at FINRA without a valid written agreement and task order in place will be deemed the sole property of FINRA and no fee will be paid in the event that person is hired by FINRA.

FINRA is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, disability, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status or any other classification protected by federal state or local laws as appropriate, or upon the protected status of the person’s relatives, friends or associates.

FINRA abides by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-741.5(a). This regulation prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals on the basis of disability, and requires affirmative action by covered prime contractors and subcontractors to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals with disabilities.

FINRA abides by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-300.5(a). This regulation prohibits discrimination against qualified protected veterans, and requires affirmative action by covered prime contractors and subcontractors to employ and advance in employment qualified protected veterans.

©2020 FINRA. All rights reserved. FINRA is a registered trademark of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.

Apply Now